The Unicorn Project
A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Failed to add items
Add to cart failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
New to Audible Prime Member exclusive: 2 credits with free trial
The Unicorn Project
Buy Now for ₹836.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Frankie Corzo
-
Written by:
-
Gene Kim
About this listen
The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes The Unicorn Project!
“The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…” (Fernando Cornago, senior director platform engineering, Adidas)
“Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how … the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all.” (Dr. Steven Spear, author of The High-Velocity Edge, sr. lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC)
“The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!” (Cornelia Davis, vice president of technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., author of Cloud Native Patterns)
This highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development.
In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals.
One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies.
The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms - this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.
©2019 Gene Kim (P)2019 Gene KimPeople who bought this also bought...
-
The Phoenix Project
- A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 214
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of the Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An amazing walk through memory lane
- By Amazon Customer on 18-06-19
-
Beyond the Phoenix Project
- The Origins and Evolution of DevOps
- Written by: Gene Kim, John Willis
- Narrated by: Gene Kim, John Willis
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussion around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations.The audiobook is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.
-
The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
- How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
- Written by: Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois,
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies! Over the last five years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the best-selling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it’s time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.
-
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Written by: Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
- Narrated by: Nicole Forsgren
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 14
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for listeners to apply in their own organizations.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting but idealistic
- By Subodh on 02-06-22
-
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- Written by: Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help listeners choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
this is an architecture book..
- By Dinkar Gupta on 23-06-20
-
Site Reliability Engineering
- How Google Runs Production Systems
- Written by: Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff,
- Narrated by: Liz Porter
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 3
In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient - lessons directly applicable to your organization.
-
The Phoenix Project
- A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 214
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of the Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An amazing walk through memory lane
- By Amazon Customer on 18-06-19
-
Beyond the Phoenix Project
- The Origins and Evolution of DevOps
- Written by: Gene Kim, John Willis
- Narrated by: Gene Kim, John Willis
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussion around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations.The audiobook is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.
-
The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition
- How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
- Written by: Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois,
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies! Over the last five years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the best-selling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it’s time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.
-
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Written by: Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
- Narrated by: Nicole Forsgren
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 14
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for listeners to apply in their own organizations.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting but idealistic
- By Subodh on 02-06-22
-
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- Written by: Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help listeners choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
this is an architecture book..
- By Dinkar Gupta on 23-06-20
-
Site Reliability Engineering
- How Google Runs Production Systems
- Written by: Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff,
- Narrated by: Liz Porter
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 3
In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient - lessons directly applicable to your organization.
What listeners say about The Unicorn Project
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Nikhil Porwal
- 27-03-22
A story startup company employees can relate to
Story is woven beautifully. Instead of going technical which was surprisingly Eric's part in the book, the book serves a mirror to why some software engineers life is miserable under some companies.
Narration is great. Loved it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Sushil
- 11-03-23
Must have for any organization
I believe both this The Phoenix Project novels are must have for any one who contribute to corporate life.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Arjun Gupta
- 06-09-21
An informative read for those just getting started
A very easy to finish book that was highly informative and inspirational. Great for anyone just getting started in the tech world.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Rajesh Shastry
- 23-01-23
Absolutely gripping storytelljng!
Loved going back to the development days & the associated challenges. I enjoyed it end to end.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Varsha
- 29-06-24
A Review of 'The Unicorn Project'
The Unicorn Project" by Gene Kim is a compelling narrative that dives into the world of software development and digital transformation. The novel follows Maxine, a senior lead developer, as she navigates the complexities and challenges of modern IT environments. The book brilliantly highlights the struggles developers face, such as outdated processes, technical debt, and organizational silos, while providing a roadmap for overcoming these obstacles.
Kim's storytelling makes technical concepts accessible and engaging, turning abstract ideas into tangible experiences. The book emphasizes the importance of DevOps, Agile practices, and a culture of continuous improvement in driving digital disruption and achieving business success.
"The Unicorn Project" is a must-read for developers, IT professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the critical role of technology in modern business. Its insights are not only practical but also inspiring, making it a valuable addition to the field of software development literature.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Venkadesh
- 10-10-24
Mindset
Good productivity book which gives a good insight on how things can be done better rather than complaining.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall1 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- Jablonski
- 28-04-23
Boring
I had earlier purchased The Phoenix Project - and loved it. It was the closest to The Goal by Goldratt, an exemplary business novel if there was one. Goldratt, in my opinion, invented the genre of the "Business Novel", just as Irving Stone invented the genre of the historical novel. He can't be beat.
So, when I purchased The Unicorn Project that supposedly was a sequel, I was all anticipation. I can't say how disappointed I am after reading 10-odd chapters. This book is an unending, monotonous, description of the IT landscape inside a company that is...BORING. Jargon, lingo, connections upon connections overwhelms the reader or listener. One loses a sense of place.
A novel needs a cast of characters, a plot, interplay of dynamics, intrigue, perhaps a doublecross, an inside informant, and...a denouement. When all these are missing and one hears only a lengthy, interminable, monologue it is a great disappointment. I suspect the writer of this book is not the one who wrote the Phoenix Project - I haven't checked. This book is a pain to read (or, as in my case, hear).
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!